Despite these misgivings, the potential of the growing organization appealed to Nearing over the malaise of the fading organization.

Despite the outlaw movement fading from view in the late 1970s, Rodriguez was determined to stay on top of his game.

Despite fading from contemporary Singaporean society, these secret societies hold great relevance to Singapore's modern history.

Despite its name, it is technically a fairly standard commercial lager rather than a bitter.

Despite the bitter interactions, the Lovers mostly reconcile their differences by the end of the play and end up happily together and / or married.

Despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced career woman, Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter, Saffron, a secondary school pupil ( and later university student ) whose constant care for her mother has left her a bitter cynic.

Despite Napoleon's pleas that he abdicate and leave Mexico, Maximilian refused to abandon the Mexican conservatives who had supported him, and remained alongside them until the bitter end, when he was captured by the Republicans and then shot on 19 June 1867.

Despite his five-year contract with the BBC, Alan claims to his old school teacher " Sweaty " Frank Raphael in " The Talented Mr. Alan " that there was " bad blood " between them and they were " bitter bastards " plus every profession has its " shits ", so they had to let him go.

Despite ample warning and thorough defensive preparations, the battle soon degenerated into a bitter, close-quarters infantry affair, with artillery restricted by the need to avoid friendly troops and tanks unable to reach the scene.

Despite their joint success, the two commanders regarded each other as bitter rivals and after the war built competing temples to demonstrate divine favor.

Despite his disappointment over the Court's positions on some issues, Minton remained popular among his colleagues on the Court as he didn't take sides in their personal disagreements ; he proved a soothing presence during a period marked by bitter personal feuds between strong personalities such as William O. Douglas and Felix Frankfurter.

Despite the excitement of the affair, Scott was bitter and burned out.

Despite guiding the club to its first trophy in eight seasons, Graham could not achieve a finish higher than tenth in the Premiership and remained unpopular with a large section of the supporters, because of his previous role at Arsenal, Tottenham's most bitter rivals.

Despite what became a much more bitter debate, Howe's bill carried.

Despite the bitter disagreements on design and engines, the 247 was still a remarkable achievement and was Boeing's showcase exhibit at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.

Despite bitter criticism of the entry of low ' folk culture ' into television by the director of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme, it was an instant success.

Despite such characteristics, survivors counted religious faith as integral to their lives following the attack in Rosewood, to keep them from becoming bitter.

Despite its strong smell and bitter taste, the fruit is nevertheless eaten as a famine food and, in some Pacific islands, even a staple food, either raw or cooked.

Despite their bitter kernel, they are eaten by deer, squirrels and birds.

Despite drawing much attention in the sometimes bitter campaign against her former party leader, Brown lost by a significant margin, and retired permanently from politics.

Despite Odin's best intentions, his sons become bitter enemies, with the feuding often requiring Odin's mediation.

Despite bitter battles between SPS and Alumni Association President and Attorney Robert Zoffel, the school would later change its mascot to the " Wildcats ".

Despite his bitter anti-Catholicism, his political ideas won him wide support among the Irish Catholic population, who shared his dislike of English and Anglican dominance.

Despite competition between the two operators, bitter " bus wars " that broke out in other cities and towns across Scotland were largely avoided, and Eastern did not persevere with loss-making operations, but settled for economy by reducing use of St. Andrew Square Bus Station by running through the Edinburgh city centre to Charlotte Square, Haymarket and Silverknowes, and connecting traditional routes to Balerno and Wallyford end-to end ( ironically adopting the LRT Route No. 44 ).

Despite this, Lawrence still made 23 starts and 10 substitute appearances for the club, scoring stunning goals against Fulham, Chelsea, and Sunderland's bitter rivals Newcastle United at St James ' Park.

Despite bitter opposition from the military, the Soviet government endorsed Korolov ’ s approach and issued decrees on 22 and 25 May 1959 that ordered the development of three different spacecraft, all based on the same basic, Object OD-2, design.

" Despite this, Greenbury talked openly about the problems with the leadership succession that ultimately caused a slump at the retailer, as the four possible candidates for the job engaged in a bitter power struggled that stimulated headlines such as " Sparks Fly at Marks ", in a Channel 4 documentary.

Despite a 1995 apology regarding World War II by Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, tensions still remain, mostly because many Chinese feel there is a lack of true remorse for wartime crimes committed by Imperial Japanese forces.

Despite wartime restrictions, he was granted British citizenship in 1942 and signed an Official Secrets Act declaration form.

Despite significant strategic advances into Federation space, they were eventually driven back to their own borders, and suffered a devastating wartime catastrophe on Remus.

Despite its wartime struggles, the University was able to establish the disciplines of biology, medicine, journalism, pharmacy, and the first mining program in the nation.

Despite early attempts to use an equivalent phrase in English, the term was uncommon until William Temple popularized it during the Second World War, contrasting wartime Britain's welfare state with the " warfare state " of Nazi Germany.

" Despite being defended by her wartime commander, Paul Archard, she was sentenced to death on 7 January 1949.

Despite its failures at senior level up to 1946, Perth had considerable success in the wartime under-age competition from 1942 to 1944, and this group of players allowed the club to become finals regulars along with, and from 1947 to 1951.

Despite the wartime circumstances, the character never resorted to deadly force.

Despite his wartime differences with Longstreet, McLaws initially defended Longstreet in the post-war attempts by Jubal Early and others to smear his reputation.

Despite its undeniable effectiveness, the Beretta Modello 38A proved too time-consuming and expensive to produce during wartime.

Despite the anti-Northern fury of prewar and wartime politics, most South Carolinians, including the state's leading opinion-maker, Wade Hampton III, believed that white citizens would do well to accept President Johnson's terms for full reentry to the Union.

Despite the shortage of wartime manpower, the regime was unwilling to tap the pool of available university students, arguing that these young people were Iraq's hope for the future.

Despite wartime hardships, such as gasoline and tire rationing, audiences climbed the hill on foot and horseback to attend a wide array of programs: ballet, modern dance, mime, ballroom dance, and folk dance of many cultures.

Despite ruling for only three years, Henry remained in the memories of Silesia, Greater Poland and Kraków as the perfect Christian knight and lord, whose brilliant career was stopped by his early death.

Despite her death, Maleficent reappears in the midquel Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories as a figment of the memories of Sora and Riku in Castle Oblivion, appearing before the two of them in their own storylines.

Despite his efforts, the memories are slowly erased, with the last memory of Clementine telling him: " Meet me in Montauk ".

Despite Fred's soul supposedly shattering in the process of Illyria taking over her body, Joss Whedon originally intended for either Fred and Illyria to be split in two had Angel gotten a sixth season, as revealed by Amy Acker in an interview: " As I ’ m playing this new character now, it was just some stuff that he was going to do with her and bringing Fred back and getting to work with both characters ", or for Illyria to take on more and more of Fred's memories.

Despite retaining his initial memories, Worf has no evidence that reality has changed and his own personal logs support the stories given by the other crew members.

Despite his success with Milan, he continued to hold fond memories of his Roma years, and it was for that reason that on 4 March 2007 – the day after Milan eliminated Celtic in the first knockout round of the 2006 – 07 UEFA Champions League – he candidly revealed in a UEFA. com chat that he did not want Milan to be drawn against the Giallorossi in the quarterfinal round.

Despite a substantial aversion to fighting, Mat's re-filled memories make him a consummate strategist and tactician ; he remembers battles and strategies that have been lost for centuries.

Despite winning La Liga, Capello was sacked on 28 June 2007 due to Real's pragmatic style of play at a club with recent memories of the individualistic and free-flowing, but ultimately unsuccessful Galáctico era.

Despite her conventional upbringing, Fukuda felt close to judo through memories of her grandfather, and one day went with her mother to watch a judo training session.

Despite earning and spending a fortune his memories of surviving on the streets as a child never left him, prompting many acts of generosity.

Despite this, probably the most important thing in the club's history is that forever will remain the memories of the wins at European clubs with big traditions, such as the French side Montpellier HSC the Netherlands's FC Groningen, and Germany's Munchen 1860-a game the " Falcons " won 2: 1 and with 9 players.

Despite having vivid memories of the war itself, he recalled little of the events immediately following his injury.

Despite being in a weakened state, Xavier is resisting Exodus ' efforts which requires rebuilding Xavier's damaged brain atom by atom but only if all of Xavier's memories are temporarily removed.

But the Government is not, for example Privy Councilor Zimmermann, the Chief of the General Staff and other gentlemen-who are even in a position to correct such a note. What is undeniable, however, is that the note was a provocation ... All this, after our provocative move, was no more a charade-it gratified me and brought back old memories " Despite his disgrace, Eulenburg had many friends in the government, especially the military, and so was very well informed about German decision-making behind the scenes during the July Crisis.